Not trying to start some religious war, everything has it's purpose, though in the PHD recommendations, they are only human, we are all human. What I mean by that is we learn something at some point in time and then carry that for the rest of our life's. Look at all the improvements Ford has made, for the first time last year it was Ford against Toyota, to come from junk bonds to something better is a great story. I personally own two Fords myself. Though I know people that REGARDLESS of the rewards, regardless of all the good articles and commentary out there will simply never own a Ford because back in 19??? their Ford was a lemon. Their mind is permanently set and it would take a land side to get them to think else wise. That's one of the reasons why Ford had to be so much better to get past the negative image it had/has/loosing.
There are a great number of companies this has happened to, Microsoft I think is reinventing themselves to be that comeback, but it will have to be so overwhelming in order to get past peoples negative images of past experiences. Windows 7 has made alot of great improvements, windows 8 is pretty much re-invented, I'm running it on a nice tablet now with the customer preview (beta) and haven't had a problem at all. Its got alot of awards. Now the statement of hardware, well that all depends on what hardware it's loaded on, though with ARM support it probably could be loaded on the same galaxy tabs. The .NET programming environment is land sides easier then any other, of course coming from this background I'm bias but I've had to work with other languages and frameworks and always find them immature (at least the toolsets) while the tools for .NET (VS.NET) are very mature and easy to use and gets the job done. Now anyone can build a bad plane with the right materials and tools, no tool or language is going to keep you from making bad software. There is alot more that goes into software development besides good ideas and good tools. Anyways, sorry to start such a flurry, technology is ever moving and in my role I can't just get stuck on what I like I move with the flow and move where the work goes, in my field there are alot of competitors as I'm in SQL and BI with SharePoint (all MS techonologies). Though I've seen SQL come from a joke to being taken seriously in the enterprise and with it's price point it chips away at the others account after account. Anyways, I'm waiting on my KR to get a tablet that I can simply mount, I want to record all metrics and pick it up and walk out of the plane. THe BD4 I have uses a regular PC (ITX MB in a Car Mobile Case) with a solid state hard drive, this running PCAvionics software. I have so many options with this you can only imagine. Anyway's have a great weekend Joe -- Jose Fuentes Founding Father (one of and former Vice Prez) of Capital City.NET User's Group
